Re: Have you always dreamed of become a high payed consultant?

[Alistair Maclean <address@hidden>]

In article <3de5662b_5@Usenet.com>, Peter E. C. Dashwood <dashwood@nospa
m.enternet.co.nz> writes
>> >Perhaps a little hard on Nelson,
>> Committed suicide by wearing a uniform with medals which marked him out
>> to the snipers. An officer normally wore a plain coat and hat and not
>> their medals. Also a philanderer (one of my pet hates). Deserted his
>> wife and child.
>>
>
>I can't fault your knowledge of history. But if it weren't for him, we'd be
>having this conversation in (Ugh!) ...French. (Come to think of it, it's a
>pity the Canucks didn't have someone like him; they wouldn't be having all
>this nonsense with Quebec... (if you are Canadian, please ignore
>deliberately inflammatory comment <G>))
Quick, duck!


>
>
>>
>> >Darwin,
>> Although he did formulate the theory of evolution something like 50
>> years before anybody else, he did not publish his theory until Wallace
>> (I think, and an Aussie) sent him a copy of a manuscript independently
>> formulating the same theory. Then Darwin published. Why give him the
>> credit when his work had not been in the public domain before Wallace
>> published his work?
>>
>He delayed publication for 20 years, but mainly because he realised the
>terrible effect his "Origin of Species" would have on Society. It is
>interesting that Wallace withdrew completely in favour of Darwin. (I believe
>he had been a student of Darwin's, but I'm not sure about that...)
I would still credit Wallace.


>
>>
>> >Brunel,
>> A builder of large and unused boats. And bridges. I wish I had seen
>> Jeremy Clarkson's documentary as that must have been a magnificent piece
>> of tv for Brunel to do so well.
>>
>
>Clarkson's program was superb. I believe he is a genuine admirer of Brunel.
>The Bookies stopped taking bets when it was rumoured that students from
>Brunel University had hacked into the telephone system to rig the voting in
>Brunel's favour. He certainly led for quite a while at the start of the
>competition.
>>
>> > and Newton,
>> As the credited inventor of Differential Calculus he had been beaten to
>> it by a Frenchman by at least 25 years. What Newton did do was to
>> conduct the first experiments using truly rigorous scientific methods.
>>
>
>Not sure who you are referring to here. Certainly there is evidence that one
>of Newton's greatest rivals, the German Mathematician and Astronomer,
>Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, may have pipped him to the Calculus.
>
>Despite his thoroughly disagreeable personality, and the overruling of his
>work by Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, we cannot deny that it was
>Newtonian physics that put men on the Moon and gave us the first true
>insight into the "nature of things". (Even if that insight required
>subsequent amendment...)
Newtonian physics works fine for me.


>
>> >don't you
>> >think, Alistair? (Agree about Diana, Elizabeth the First (although you
>have
>> >to admire her courage), and John Lennon (admire his ideals but still
>> >basically a ne'er-do-well <G>). Of course they missed the real British
>> >heroes who are loved by millions, Sooty, Basil Brush, TeleTubbies, Bob
>the
>> >Builder, Postman Pat, and Mr Blobby...
>>
>> What about Pugh, Pugh, Barley, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub? Windy
>> Miller? Roobarb and Custard? Parsley? Muffin?...
>>
>Well, that's an assortment I am not familiar with...<G>
Trumptonand/or Camberwick Green, R&C were a cartoon cat and dog, Parsley
was the lion in the Herb Garden and Muffin was both a mule and a sexual
offence.


>
>> >
>> >> > Shakespeare made it to the top 10 but it was
>> >> >painfully apparent in the debates that most kids are not being exposed
>> >> >to him, or, if they are, they are not being helped to appreciate the
>> >> >beauty and timelessness of his writing.
>> >>
>> >> I was tortured at school by having to do Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of
>> >> Venice, MacBeth (a clansman of mine) and Two Gentlemen From Verona. I
>> >> plan on self-abusing myself by doing Hamlet sometime, just so that I
>can
>> >> see how Guildenstern and Rosencrantz fit in. BTW, I love MacBeth, even
>> >> though the story is an English propaganda exercise (should that be
>> >> exercize?).
>> >>
>> >
>> >There is little opportunity for self abuse in Hamlet. Ophelia is a
>mournful
>> >cow who ends up drowning herself (not in the least erotic). I saw Diana
>Rigg
>> >naked as Lady MacBeth many years ago
>>
>> Lucky beggar!
>>
>> > on the West End stage and the image
>> >haunts me to this day. (For those of you who get re-runs of the original
>> >Avengers with Steed and Mrs Peel, she was Mrs Peel...I can assure you she
>> >was even more devastating without the leather outfit than she was with
>> >it...<G>) I believe that Nicole Kidman did the same role recently (but I
>> >might be confusing that with the Blue Room). Anyway, for my money, Lady
>> >MacBeth is the sexiest role in Shakespeare...
>> >
>> >Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are inserted into Hamlet for no apperent
>reason
>> >other than to make Hamlet look smart when juxtaposed against their
>> >stupidity...<G>
>>
>> Have you seen the film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Well worth
>> watching.
>>
>
>No, I haven't. I'll try and hire a DVD.
>
>Pete.
>
>
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